Shout-Out for Marc Bellemare

If you don't follow Marc Bellemare's blog (shame on you - you should!), then you may not have caught up with his recent posts relating to his series of lectures on "Advanced Econometrics - Causal Inference With Observational Data" at the University of Copenhagen in May of this year.

Marc kept us all on tenterhooks by "releasing" the slides for these lectures progressively - smart move!

Update, 23 July 2018 -

However, all of the eight lectures in the series are now available for downloading:

• Lecture 1: Introduction
• Lecture 2: Causality
• Lecture 3: Instrumental Variables
• Lecture 4: Panel Data & Differences-in-Differences
• Lecture 5: Regression Discontinuity Designs
• Lecture 6: Nonstandard Dependent Variables
• Lecture 7: Tricks f the Trade, I
• Lecture 8: Tricks of the Trade, II

Thanks for sharing them, Marc.

© 2018, David E. Giles

The Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics (SURE)

Andrea Menclover of the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) has recently founded the SURE Journal, whose aims and scope are as follows:

'The Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics (SURE) is an e-journal of high-quality research with “unsurprising” findings. We publish scientifically important and carefully-executed studies with statistically insignificant or otherwise unsurprising results. Studies from all fields of Economics will be considered. SURE is an open-access journal and there are no submission charges. (My emphasis, DG.)

SURE benefits readers by:

• Mitigating the publication bias and thus complementing other journals in an effort to provide a complete account of the state of affairs;
• Serving as a repository of potential (and tentative) “dead ends” in Economics research.

SURE benefits writers by:

• Providing an outlet for interesting, high-quality, but “risky” (in terms of uncertain results) research projects;
• Decreasing incentives to data-mine, change theories and hypotheses ex post or exclusively focus on provocative topics.'

To find out more or to submit a manuscript, visit: http://surejournal.org.

This is a novel venture that has a lot to offer at a time when research replicability and publication bias are (rightly) receiving so much attention.

I'm delighted to be associated with the new journal as a member of its Editorial Board.

© 2018, David E. Giles

Suggested Reading for June

• Colussi, T., 2018. Social ties in academia: A friend is a treasure. Review of Economics and Statistics, 100, 45-50.
• Dette, H., K. Möllenhoff, S. Volgushev, & F. Bretz, 2018. Equivalence of regression curves. Journal of the American Statistical Association, online.
• Kumbhaker, S. C., C. F. Parmeter, & V. Zelenyuk, 2018. Stochastic frontier analysis: Foundations and advances. Working paper No. WP02/2018, Centre for Efficiency and productivity Analysis, School of Economics, University of Queensland.
• Morshed, A. A., E. Andreou, & O. Boldea, 2018. Structural break tests robust to regression misspecification. Econometrics, 6, 27.
• Zhang, L., 2018. Spurious regressions with high-order models: A reconsideration. Economics Letters, 168, 70-72.
• Zhao, S., A. Ullah, & X. Zhang, 2018. A class of model averaging estimators. Working Paper Series 18-11, Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis.

© 2018, David E. Giles